zuluCrypt

zuluCrypt is an open source and freely distributed software project that has been designed from the ground up to provide users with both graphical and command-line user interfaces for easy management of TrueCrypt, LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) and Plain encrypted volumes under any GNU/Linux operating system. It’s a front-end for the cryptsetup command-line application.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to create encryption keys that have 64 bytes in size and comprise of only the 94 printable characters, the ability to encrypt standalone files, add additional keys to volumes that are encrypted with the LUKS disk-encryption specification, as well as to delete keys LUKS encrypted volumes.

In addition, the application allows users to create encrypted volumes on either partitions or files, create LUKS, Plain or TrueCrypt encrypted volumes, open LUKS, TrueCrypt or Plain encrypted volumes that reside in disk partitions or standalone files, and delete data on unencrypted partitions. The application handles regular block devices, LVM and MDRAID devices.

Easy to use GUI

While the command-line version of the program is pretty much the same like any other CLI tool, the graphical user interface is easy-to-use and straightforward, as it allows users to access encrypted volumes without too much hassle.

Under the hood, availability and supported OSes

While the software is written entirely in the C programming language, it uses the cross-platform Qt GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface, which means that it will run well on any distribution of Linux where the Qt4 libraries are installed.

The bad news is that the application is distributed only as a universal sources archive, forcing users to configure and compile it prior to installation. The good news is that it is installable on both 32-bit and 64-bit computers. It can also be found on the default software repositories of several GNU/Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, on which we’ve tested the software.

What is new in this release:

• add support for usage of keys that are made up by a combination of a passphrase and a keyfile."hmac" plugin
• should be used to unlock volumes generated by this combination.
• fix problems caused by updated versions of certain utilities we rely on.

What is new in version 4.7.5:

• add abilities in zuluMount-gui to hide useless entries like windows recovery partitions from view. These entries can be set to show/hide through tray icon context menu.
• add ability to mount and unmount encfs volumes in zuluMount-gui.A folder with encrypted files can be unlocked by dragging it and then dropping it on zuluMount-gui main window.
• add ablity to create TrueCrypt volumes using a passphrase together with one or more keyfiles.Previous versions allowed creation of volumes using either a passphrase or a single keyfile.
• add support for opening of VeraCrypt volumes(cryptsetup >= 1.7.0 required).

What is new in version 4.7.4:

• fix a bug that hanged zuluMount-gui on failed attempt at unlocking a plain dm-crypt volume at a none zero offset.a plain dm-crypt volume at
• a none zero offset can be used as a hidden volume ala TrueCrypt hidden volume feature.No protetcion of hidden volume though.

What is new in version 4.6.8:

• Store partition id in wallets by device hardware id on volumes that do not have UUID( non LUKS volumes )
• Add support for exfat file system.
• Add support for creating a backup and restoring from backup truecrypt volume headers(tcplay >=2.0.0 required)
• Add a simple CLI tool(zuluSafe-cli) that can be used to store multiple files securely in a single wallet file.
• Add support in zuluMount for opening a plain volume at a user specified offset.This ability will allow hidden volume type functionality.
• Add support for multi device btrfs volumes.

What is new in version 4.6.7:

• Fix a regression on zuluMount-gui that caused a hang when checking for properties of an opened volume opened by a different user.

What is new in version 4.6.6:

• fix a regression,retrieving keys from kwallet using volume UUID broke.
• volumes in gnome are now stored in libsecret and no longer in libgnome-keyring
• add a GUI window in zuluCrypt-gui to manage keys in libsecret wallet,internal wallet and kde kwallet.
• add an internal system that can securely store keys independently of kde kwallet and gnome libsecret.Useful to those who
• want to store keys securely but dont want gnome or kde dependencies
• add compile time option to use mount points in user home directory instead of "/run/media/private"
• NOTE: changes in management of wallets are not backward compatible and hence volumes will have to be readded after the update.My
• apologies for the inconvenience.
• drop support for updating /etc/mtab and remove libmount as a required dependency
• add a Qt5 port,see build instrunctions on how to build Qt5 version

What is new in version 4.6.5:

• add support for opening truecrypt system volumes
• add internatiolization support
• zuluMount-gui is now aware of volumes that are mounted or unmounted outside of it. This gives zuluMount-gui an ability to automount
• newly attached devices.
• encrypted volumes that reside in files can be opened simply by drag and drop them in zuluCrypt-gui or zuluMount-gui windows
• various changes and improvements

What is new in version 4.6.2:

• add config option to not build KDE and/or GNOME support even when the system has support for them
• add support for LVM volumes
• add support for consulting udev in addition to fstab when deciding if a system is system or not
• add tcplay as an optional dependency to allow creation of truecrypt volumes
• fix bug:truecrypt volumes with multiple ciphers did not close properly
• fix bug:volumes did not close properly if mount point had a space character among others in it
• feature added:users who are members of "zulumount-exec" group will have their volumes opened with "exec" mount option.
• This will allow them to be able to execute commands from the mount point.The default and recommended option is not mount with "noexec" option.
• feature added:A "-M" option is added that will create a publicly accessible "mirror" of a mount point in "/run/share" from the private
• original one created in "/run/media/$USER.This option is there to allow a user to mount a volume and have it accessible from other users of the system.
• zuluMount-gui now adds and removed from its list as devices are added and removed from the system.A right click context menu option can be set to allow
• unencrypted volumes to also be automounted.
• add a command line option to zuluMount-gui to start it up without showing the GUI

Requirements:

• cryptsetup